ArticleContraception and reproductive medicine2017
Knowledge, acceptance and utilisation of the female condom among women of reproductive age in Ghana.
Article in Contraception and reproductive medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Knowledge and attitude of deaf women in relation to contraceptive methods: A systematic review.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis assessing the knowledge and use of the female condom among Nigerians.African health sciences · 2021Pooled it
- Trial
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practice gap in female condoms utilization among future health professionals. A cross-sectional study.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2026Article
- Assessing knowledge and utilization of female condoms among undergraduate female students at Makerere University, Kampala: a cross-sectional study.Reproductive health · 2025Article
- Regional and cultural determinants of condom use attitudes among HIV seropositive heterosexuals in Ghana: A cross-sectional study.SAGE open medicine · 2025Article
- Sexual Practices and HIV Prevention Strategies Used by Female Sex Workers in Lagos, Nigeria: An Assessment of the Willingness to Use a Microbicide.HIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- Assessing nurses' knowledge and attitudes towards promoting female condom use in South African primary healthcare clinics.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Perceived motivators, knowledge, attitude, self-reported and intentional practice of female condom use among female students in higher training institutions in Dodoma, Tanzania.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2023Article
- Spanish validation of female condom attitude scale and female condom use in Colombian young women.BMC women's health · 2019Article
- Social and psychological factors affecting utilization of female condom among youths in Migori County, Kenya.Health psychology openReview
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThe female condom (FC) is the only safe and effective female-initiated method that provides simultaneous protection against unintended pregnancy as well as sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS. Knowledge of FC use among women and the perceptions and attitudes towards condom use can contribute to its uptake as an important public health strategy for HIV prevention in Ghana. However, there is a dearth of empirical evidence in this area of public health research to inform interventions. This study seeks to examine women's knowledge, acceptance and utilisation of the FC and factors that influence its acceptance and utilisation.
methodsA descriptive cross-sectional survey design was used and a total of 380 females between the ages of 15 and 49 years were sampled from the Hohoe Municipality of the Volta Region, Ghana. A self-administered structured questionnaire measuring the study variables was used, and frequencies, percentages and Chi Square tests were used to analyse the data.
resultsThere is low level of FC use among the women as less than half (48.4%) of the sample were aware of the FC. It was further observed that 21.1, 21.8 and 11.1% of the sample reported friends, media and a public lecture as their sources of knowledge of the FC respectively. It was also observed that there is a low level of FC acceptance and utilisation, and also limited access to the FC from nearby shops/pharmacies (1.8%) and health centres (7.4%).
conclusionsThere is a generally low level of FC awareness, knowledge, acceptance and utilisation and therefore, there is the need for increased public education on the FC and its benefits to women in preventing unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.